Frame Roof Design

Building strong stick frame roofs although truss designed roofs are predominant throughout most of the residential construction industry there are regions where building with stick frame roofs is still common.

Frame roof design.

Here we have a wood framed gable roof. The framing style of the roof refers to the actual components of each roofing truss and the design of the structural foundation of that roof. Gable roofs can be problematic in high wind and hurricane areas. Roof framing is one of those carpenter skills that appears quite complicated and indeed some roof designs are difficult.

It s steep pointed roof which extends all the way to the ground or close to the ground. Their inherently simple design makes it easy to build them and cheaper than more complex designs. It s a very simple roof design and is inexpensive because the roof serves as both roof and walls. There are several roof types.

This is the basic problem involved in determining the length of a roof rafter a brace or any other member that forms the hypotenuse of an actual or imaginary right triangle. The gable roof hip roof gambrel roof flat roof shed roof mansard roof and many more custom roof types. Partially these will depend on the style of roof you ve selected but you ll also have some wiggle room depending on the design elements of the house. Roofs are basically five types.

Framers stick building a hip roof you can learn a great deal about roof framing by understanding the concepts of framing a gable or shed roof. Valleys the inverse of a ridge or lines that appear to go inward on a roof. The image below shows a cross section of our simple 12 x 13 house from the joist span tables section of this tutorial. Roof framing depends on the type of roof you want to build.

In combination of roof styles a hip will connect to another part of the roof as part of the frame. A single shell roof is also called warm roof and it is an unventilated roof. Floor beam span tables of residential structural design we will now look at roof rafter and beam design. A distinction is made between single shell and double shell roofs.

The roof makes up much or all off the walls of the home. The typical use case for a warm roof is the flat roof. Let s consider a basic gable wood roof framing design. Another common design in the northeast is the saltbox which is a gable roof with one longer side.

The framing square is used most frequently to find the length of the hypotenuse longest side of a right triangle when the lengths of the other two sides are known. Shed gable hip gambrel and mansard. Continuing on from part 3. High winds can also cause materials to peel away from gable roofs.

Generally wherever 2 sloped planes connect other than at a peak point a valley is formed.